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"The Way You Look To-night" is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. [5] [6] Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release ...
"The Lady in Red" is a song by British-Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh. It was released on 20 June 1986 as the second single from the album Into the Light. Charting at number one in several countries and reaching the top three in the United States, the song was responsible for introducing de Burgh's music to a mainstream audience worldwide.
The song was (as was customary at the time) promoted by Warner through a Merrie Melodies cartoon entry, "The Lady in Red."Merrie Melodies composer/arranger Carl Stalling made use of the tune again in a 1937 Porky Pig cartoon, "Picador Porky," which like "The Lady In Red" was set in Mexico and which additionally included the title tune from In Caliente.
Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 [1] – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930), "Don't Blame Me" (1948), "Pick Yourself Up" (1936), "I'm in the Mood for Love" (1935), "You Couldn't Be ...
1936 – Won for "The Way You Look Tonight" (lyrics by Dorothy Fields) from Swing Time 1941 – Won for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) from Lady Be Good 1942 – Nominated for "Dearly Beloved" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer) from You Were Never Lovelier .
When he died, from a heart attack aged 68, in Twentynine Palms, California, [2] he left a lengthy catalogue of songs. Allie Wrubel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. His best-known songs include: "Breakin' My Back Putting Up A Front For You" "Cleanin' My Rifle (Dreamin' Of You)" "Gone with the Wind" "Farewell to Arms ...
The Lady in Red is a musical in three acts with music by Robert Winterberg and both book and lyrics by Anne Caldwell. It was an Americanized version of Winterberg's earlier German-language operetta Die Dame in Rot (1911) with entirely new lyrics and dialogue by Caldwell and some new music by Winterberg in addition to some of the music from the ...
On the Canadian Singles Chart, "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" spent three years in the top 20, with 45 non-consecutive weeks at the top spot. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] However, the song's unusual chart performance in Canada has also been explained as a structural factor, due to the relative lack of CD singles ...